City Market

A tricked-out eggs Benedict, macarons galore, and a campfire cake.

Suggestions from last year’s users include outdoor movies, putting dance steps on the bricks, basketball, and pony rides.

The most important meal of the day is no longer a sleepy affair at downtown’s original food court.

The upper crust flocks to Amelia’s new storefront, Say Cheese gives us yet another reason to love City Market, and Goose offers an extended-play version for gourmet shoppers.

Avoid eye contact with the vendors. Or leave with soft pretzels and crockpot mix.

By the 1950s, the city was changing, and so was the market. The building showed signs of age and was still a couple of decades away from a major 1970s renovation, which added stalls and restaurants and lent the structure a described “French Quarter flair.”

A toast the best of the fermented offerings around town.

City Market garners international attention, and Northside Nights unveils this year’s lineup.

What to gift the CrossFitter, beauty blogger, frequent flier, and other 2014 types.

Including the beer-can chicken nachos from Circle City Soups.

Whether topped with a bright lemon curd flecked with zest or a sweet raspberry puree atop layers of chocolate, this has all the delicacy of traditional crepes with the rich texture of an actual cake.

Fans stalk Circle City Sweets’s Twitter and Facebook accounts waiting for the announcement of doissant day, because the delicate, vanilla-glazed pastries disappear as quickly as they are cooked.

No doubt, Indy has quite an array of intriguing things to explore, but here are 26 of the city’s most noteworthy musts.

From vow renewals to a Lucille Ball homage, a smooth R&B concert to a Twist-and-shout “Valentine’s Day Is Stupid” Dance Party, here’s a quartet of V-Day options to get your heart beating one way or another.

“The concept is it will be a catalyst for a small business to grow,” Cara Dafforn says. “I’m the only employee, and this national exposure has taken my small business to a mid-sized business.”